Booney wrote:I attended a funeral yesterday for a friends mother and spoke to some friends about what lies ahead for us all.
In the last 20-25 years we've all married, had children, built homes and lives, become the people we are and with our friends developed relationships with those you know and love. The next 20-25 will be filled with loss as our ageing parents leave us.
Seems a little unfair that just as you find life unfolding as you would have hoped there's a bend in the road ahead that's unavoidable.
The groups overwhelming sense was to make the most of every day, be the person you want to be. Love and be loved.
Yep, someone dug up a documentary of my Grandfather from 1974 titled "If I can do it", it was about how he used to get himself around after losing both legs, it was simply amazing how he'd climb in and out of the truck and along the car carrier trailers to in the cars to unload them, it certainly tugged on the heart strings and made me appreciate what I do have.
I'm now down to just having a mother as a parental figure, most of my cousins etc. are really just acquaintance's now, it's just how life pans out, at my wedding last year I invited my aunty (not her husband), and two of her sons, that was it out of any rellies full stop.